The flooding also led to the closure of the A8 motorway connecting France with Italy.

Railway links have also been damaged: a TGV express at the Nice train station was flooded, with hundreds of people spending the night in the train. The station in the resort town of Cannes has also been shut down.

Over 70,000 households were left without electricity, but currently power has been restored to half of them.

In Nice, a soccer match in the French first division was abandoned midway.

President Francois Hollande has expressed his condolences to the victims’ families, and all measures necessary will be taken to restore stability in the region.